The Weeknd commemorated his performance on Saturday Night Live last night by releasing two remixes of his latest chart-topper “The Hills” just before going on air. One starred Eminem, sounding depraved as ever (“Tonight we don’t need those pills / It’s the effects of each other”) and the other featured Nicki Minaj, quickly stealing the show…

As the roundtable format has grown into an effectively direct way for a publication to think out loud for its readers’ perusal, we’re happy to present SPINfighting, a new column where the SPIN staff will debate about a new wrinkle in the musical landscape every week. This year has proven to be a shockingly bad one…

Big Sean’s been planning a big return to his hometown of Detroit for the last couple of months now and Friday night his Finding Paradise show finally went down at the Joe Louis Arena. He brought along a few guests to make it special. As Complex reports, Sean brought out country spanning stars like Lil…

"There's a great E.E. Cummings quote that says, 'The most wasted of all days is one without laughter,'" Juno Temple tells SPIN over the phone. "But I would like to add 'and without music.'"
The 26-year-old British actress' genuine love for melody is perhaps the best reason why she's qualified to portray A&R assistant Jamie Vine on HBO's recently…

Eminem announced on Twitter yesterday that he plans to re-release his 1999 sophomore record, The Slim Shady LP, on cassette tape. The Detroit rapper didn't name a specific date for said rerelease, but he did write the semi-cryptic "#SSLP Cassette re-issue coming soon" with a link to his Shady Records website, where listeners can sign up…

Eminem has never performed "Fack," a cut off of his 2005 compilation Curtain Call: The Hits — until now. As Complexpoints out, after teasing an encore with the track in a Facebook post from earlier this month (the same day, incidentally, that he announced 1999's The Slim ShadyLP would be reissued on cassette), Marshall Mathers unleashed it upon his…

Dave Holmes may not have technically won MTV's inaugural Wanna Be a VJ contest in 1998 (he was famously the runner-up to the spindly, spiky-haired Jesse Camp), but that didn't stop the network from hiring him anyway. The music-trivia-spouting St. Louis native was kept on for three years, hosting episodes of the beloved afternoon countdown program Total…

In honor of the recent 20th anniversary of Jay Z’s debut album, Reasonable Doubt, we’re publishing a series of pieces looking at the rapper’s singular career and achievements. Welcome to Jay Z Week.
Twenty years ago, the man whose vision would closest match that of hip-hop's world-conquering ambition released his first album. To conclude our…

Following a Taylor Swift-worthy cavalcade of surprise guests on this tour (Kanye, Rihanna, J. Cole, Cam'ron, Fat Joe), Drake brought out the self-described "greatest rapper to ever get on a microphone" to do their 2009 single "Forever" at his tour stop in Detroit. This means Eminem's rumored diss track for Wheelchair Jimmy has probably gone…

Increasingly inane non-competition show Lip Sync Battle managed to snag Michael Phelps for their "All-Stars" episode on Sunday night. Now, there are areas in which Phelps could reasonably be described as an "All-Star"—his 28 Olympic medals prove that swimming is one of those areas, his indelible death stare suggests that intimidation another. Lip syncing, however, is not one of his great talents. Exhibit A: Phelps'

The latest product out of the NFL's marketing machine is a limited-edition line of T-shirts made with the help of 30 musical artists. Thanks to a collaboration with Teespring, a custom T-shirt design company, the league has commissioned shirts designed by musicians looking to rep for their hometown teams.
So, Eminem's left his imprint on a…

Turn up the volume, the judge told the lawyers in a case involving an Eminem song: "I’m not shy of loud music."
It was one of many incongruous moments during a two-week trial that ended Friday at the High Court in Wellington. The judge may not rule for months in the case in…

Eminem has announced the impending release of an "anniversary capsule" marking 15 years since his 2002 album The Eminem Show. It's out tonight. It's unclear what the content of the collection is, but you can sign up for early access to it via the Shady Records website. Eminem has been teasing some sort of event surrounding the anniversary…

Well, he's right--it does feel pretty empty without him. It's a few hours before the MTV Video Music Awards, and things are frantic inside Radio City Music Hall. Onstage, the show is getting its final run-through. Host Jimmy Fallon stumbles over the typos on his cue cards. Someone shouts into a walkie-talkie, "Is Puffy in…

Eminem and Kendrick Lamar paid tribute to the late and great Prodigy on Peter Rosenberg's Real Late show on NYC's Hot 97. The two rappers recorded their takes on two verses from the Mobb Deep rapper for the station's tribute to Prodigy, which also included clips of the rapper during past Hot 97 appearances. Eminem…

Eminem hasn't released a solo album since 2013, but it looks like that's set to change. The Defiant Ones director Allen Hughes and trap house innovator 2 Chainz have done recent interviews that pretty much confirm Shady is working on his ninth studio album.
Hughes sat with Uproxxto talk about his documentary, which premiered on HBO Sunday night. Dr.

On a new remix of his song "Chloraseptic," Eminem addresses criticism of Revival, the album from where that song came. Specifically, regarding people who didn't like the single "Walk On Water"—which featured Beyoncé, a piano, and not much else—Slim says "Bitch, suck my dick." Did you expect anything else?
The track has so far only been released in Australia, but was posted to Reddit.

Bonnaroo, the historically crunchy outdoor music and arts festival in Manchester, Tennessee, has released its lineup for this summer. It will take place on June 7-10. As one might expect from a modern festival that tries to maintain a broad musical scope while continuing to represent its traditionally jammier interests, it pushes Future right up next…